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Lot 85

A splendid Bristol, Limekiln Lane, delftware polychrome large plate, circa 1740-50

31 January 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £3,500 inc. premium

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A splendid Bristol, Limekiln Lane, delftware polychrome large plate, circa 1740-50

In the Chinoiserie taste, painted in red, blue, green and yellow with a church-like building alongside a diagonal tree, its red and yellow leaves forming a canopy at the rim of the plate, two birds in impossible flight flanking the scene, under-rim makings || + || in blue, 33.7cm diam

Footnotes

Provenance:
Syd Levethan, Longridge Collection, Christie's sale 11 June 2010, lot 1218

Literature:
Illustrated by Leslie B. Grigsby, the Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware (2000), fig.D125

An identical dish is illustrated by Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection (1982), fig. 19.19. Another was sold by Christie's 1 June 1987, lot 3. A fragment of a similar dish was found on the site of the Limekiln Lane pottery.

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